Opportunities

PhD studentships

PhD Students are usually recruited through one of several 4-year programs organised on an ISMB wide basis

Current Group Members

  • Rachel Alcraft - PhD Student
  • Phil Haigh - MRes Student
  • Mab Hashmi - MSc Student
  • Meenakshi Susarla - MSc Student
  • Sarmini Kugananthavel - MSc Student
  • Yuri Sugitani Bensted - MSc Student
  • Alan Sutherland - MSc Student
  • Vinod Tek - MSc Student

    • Former Group Members

    Post Docs

  • Rosie Bell - Research Fellow, Fluid Biomarkers Lab, UCL
  • Ahir Pushpanath - Team Leader, Biocatalysis, Johnson Matthay -> Innovation Lead, Basecamp Research -> Technical Director Biocatalysis, bitBiome

    • PhD Students

  • Paul Ashford (2013, PI: Irilenia Nobeli) -> Research Associate, Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL
  • Antony Churchill -> Senior Unity Developer, Kuato Studios -> Developer, Hyper Luminal Games
  • Chris Earl (2016, PI: Renos Savva) -> Senior Research Scientist, Francis Crick Insitute -> Research Associate, Astex
  • David Fallaize (2012) -> Tech Lead -> Manager FPGA Team, G-Research
  • Tjelvar Olsson (2008) -> Applications Scientist, CCDC -> Associate Director Research Computing, Exscientia
  • Wael Muselmani (2022, PI: Renos Savva) -> Busines Development lead, MedCity -> Senior Investment Manager for LIfe Sciences, London & Partners
  • Ahir Pushpanath (2013) - see above
  • Altin Sula (2015, PI: Nick Keep) - PostDoc, Biological Science Birkbeck -> Structural Biologist, Exscientia -> Principal Structural Biologist, Syngenta
  • Eleanor Williams (2010) - PostDoc & Outreach Officer, SGC, Oxford -> Protein Production Facility Coordinator, Centre for Medicines Discovery, Oxford

    • Masters, PhD rotation and Undergraduate Students

  • Sophie Allen - MSc Student - Data Manager & p/t PhD student, Institute for Cancer Research
  • William Alston - MSc Student -> Country Logistics Manager (Jordan, Iraq, Ukraine), Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development
  • Maria Athanasopoulou - MSc Student -> NGS Bioinformatician, ION, UCL -> Bioinformatics Quality Manager, Genomics England > Zetta genomics
  • Zara Ashur - MSc Student
  • Fabio Biond - MSc Student
  • Raul Chagas Peixoto de Oliveira - MSc Student -> Developer, Sky
  • Fran Childs - MSc Student - Science Project Manager, Nagwa
  • Sergio Gomes - MSc Student -> Database Developer, Biological Sciences, Birkbeck
  • Duncan Gordon - MRes Student -> Software Developer, Genomics England -> Software Engineer, JPMorgan Chase
  • Sarah Griffiths - MSc Student - Client Engagement Manager IDBS -> Bioinformatician, Oxford Nanopore
  • Oliver Huish - Nuffield Summer Student -> IT Manager, General Bioinformatics -> Senior Software Engineer, Zeta
  • Dale Housler - MSc Student -> Bioinformatics Support, Genewiz/Azenta
  • Desislava Ivanova - MSc Student
  • Maria Karyadi - MRes Student -> PhD at ISMB, UCL -> Editor, Spandidos Publications -> Editor, WPP Health
  • Adam Light - MRes Student -> - Philosopher
  • Emma McGeachy - MRes Student
  • Federico Minneci - MSc Student -> PostDoc, Computer Science & Institute of Child Health, UCL -> Bioinformatician, Genomics England
  • David Morley - MSc Student -> Bioinformatician -> Associate Director Bioinformatics, Bimodal
  • Eleanor McMahon - PhD Rotation Student, ISMB Wellcome Trust Program -> PostDoc, UCSF -> Strategic Planning, The National Lottery Community Fund
  • Patrick McMahon - MSc Student - Head of Mathematics, Latymer Upper School
  • Archana Patil - MSc Student -> HEO Bioinformatician, Public Health England
  • Caroline Roney - Nuffield Summer Student -> PhD Student, Imperial -> PostDoc, Bordeaux -> MRC Fellow, KCL -> Reader in Computational Medicine, QMUL
  • Satinderjit Sehra - MSc Student - Production Team Leader, Baxter HealthCare -> Quality Manager, Touchlight Genetics
  • Rudo Supple - MSc Student -> PhD, Zoology, Oxford
  • Mariana Stoica - MSc Student -> IT Business Coordinator, Birkbeck
  • Andrea Szendroi - MSc Student, Senior Clinical Scientist/Virologist, King's College NHS Trust
  • Ganesh Sivalingam - MSc Student -> PhD Student, ISMB, UCL -> BAE Systems -> Chief Engineer, Parkopedia
  • Vinita Thatte - MSc Student

    • Collaborators

  • Tracy Barrett - Birkbeck
  • David Barford - MRC LMB
  • Matt Cliff - Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester
  • Brian Henderson - Microbiology, Eastman Dental Institute, UCL
  • Nick Keep - Birkbeck
  • John Ladbury - Life Sciences, Leeds
  • Laurence Pearl - University of Sussex
  • Will Pitt - UCB Computer-Aided Drug Design Group,Slough, now Evotec, Oxford
  • Chris Prodromou - University of Sussex
  • Renos Savva - Birkbeck